Scene Assets

Assets Menu

The asset menu is found at the top of the video edit page:

The following assets can be added:

• Avatar: Human like avatars to increase the engagement of your audience with your content.
• Space: Realistic background to use as your scene space.
• Text: Text to be displayed in your scenes.
• Shape: Squares, arrows, circles... shapes to be displayed in your scenes.
• Media: Images, Videos, icons to be displayed in your scenes.
• Record: Record a browser tab or your whole screen and add the recording to your scene.

Assets manipulation

Asset locking

Locking an asset prevents the asset from being moved, resized or rotated on the canvas.

To lock an asset:

1. Select the asset on the scene.
2. Once selected, right-click the asset and select Lock from the menu drop down.

To unlock an asset:

1. Select a locked asset on the scene.
2. Once selected, right-click the asset and select Unlock from the menu drop down.

Asset selection

To select a given asset when multiples are overlapping on your scene:

1. Right-click on any Asset.
2. Click on the Select option at the top of the menu.
3. Hover any asset from the list of assets displayed to highlight it on the scene.
4. Click on an asset from the list to select it directly.

Asset Animations

Synthesia offers various animations to enhance the assets within a scene, they help create an engaging and visually appealing set of scenes in your Synthesia videos. These animations add dynamic effects to text, media, shape, and avatar in your video. Here is a comprehensive list of available animations:

Additionally for some animations set the following parameter:

• Duration: Time taken for the animation to complete in seconds.
• Delay: Time to wait between the trigger and the beginning of the animation in seconds.
• Velocity: The velocity to give to the asset, to choose between bounce, smooth, and linear.

Entering Animations

Entering animations can be applied to any media, text, shapes, and avatars.

1. Instant: Instantly displays the assets.
2. Fade in: Gradually brings the assets into view.
3. Slide in: Slides the asset in from the left/right/top/bottom.
4. Zoom in: Gradually zooms in the asset.
5. Scale in: Gradually scales the assets to its final size.

Exit Animations

Exiting animations can be applied to any media, text, shapes, and avatars.

1. Instant: Instantly removes the assets.
2. Fade out: Gradually removes the assets from the view.
3. Slide out: Slides the asset out from the left/right/top/bottom.
4. Zoom out: Gradually zooms out the asset.
5. Scale out: Gradually scales down the assets.

Triggers

Triggers allow you to trigger when an entering/exit animation should start. After selecting an asset on your scene and having set an animation for it, use the little blue arrow in the script to move the trigger to the right word.

Alternatively if you have a long script, select the word for the trigger directly next to the animation configuration. All words with an existing trigger attached are displayed, if you want to add a new one, click on +New trigger, then click on the corresponding word in your script.